Category Archives: Historical Fiction
Set of Six
Author(s): Joseph Conrad Each of the stories in this collection is spun from a simple,...
Stories from Le Morte D’Arthur and the Mabinogion
Author(s): Beatrice E. Clay “Among the stories of world-wide renown, not the least stirring are...
Tales from Jókai
Author(s): Mór Jókai Móric Jókay de Ásva, known as Mór Jókai or Maurus Jokai, was...
The Age of Innocence (Dramatic Reading)
Author(s): Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple’s impending marriage, and...
The Able McLaughlins
Author(s): Margaret Wilson The Able McLaughlins won the Pulitzer Prize for a novel in 1924...
The Armourer’s Prentices
Author(s): Charlotte Mary Yonge Set in the sixteenth century, two young boys are left orphans...
Self-Control: A Novel (version 2)
Author(s): Mary Brunton Laura Montreville is a well-born and religious girl, brought up in Scotland...
Tale of Two Cities
Author(s): Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles...
Tale of Triona
Author(s): William John Locke Olivia is a newly orphaned young woman looking for adventure and...
The Actress in High Life: An Episode in Winter Quarters
Author(s): Susan Petigru King-Bowen 1812 is the year and Portugal the location for this adventure....
Monte-Cristo’s Daughter
Author(s): Edmund Flagg “Monte-Cristo’s Daughter,” a wonderfully brilliant, original, exciting and absorbing novel, is the...
No Surrender
Published in 1911 during the peak of the British suffrage campaign, Constance Elizabeth Maud’s propaganda...
Prince of Good Fellows
Author(s): Robert Barr Robert Barr (1849 – 1912) was a Scottish Journalist, editor, humorist and...
Pimpernel and Rosemary
Author(s): Baroness Emma Orczy A novel in the Scarlet Pimpernel series that features Peter Blakeney,...
Rose Mather: A Tale
Author(s): Mary Jane Holmes Fiction merges with history in this novel taking place during the...
Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand
Author(s): Henry Cadwallader Adams A young man travels to South Africa to find his Mother...
Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving
Author(s): Washington Irving Washington Irving’s Old Christmas tells of an American’s travels through England during...
Ninety-Three
Author(s): Victor Hugo 1793. The new revolutionary government of France is laboring mightily to end...
Max
Author(s): Katherine Cecil Thurston On a trans-continental train journey into Paris, Max, a young adventurer...
Peeps at People – Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup (Dramatic Reading)
Author(s): John Kendrick Bangs Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous...
Ride Proud, Rebel!
Author(s): Andre Norton Drew Rennie, served as a cavalry scout in Confederate general John Hunt...
North and South (version 2)
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North and South is a social novel that tries to show...
Max Havelaar; or, the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
Author(s): Multatuli Called “the Book that Killed Colonialism”, Max Havelaar is an indictment of the...
Men of Iron (Version 3)
Author(s): Howard Pyle Myles Falworth, son of a wrongfully outlawed lord, grows up amid the...
Muslin
Author(s): George Moore Muslin, better known as A Drama In Muslin, is a realistic novel...
Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 4: Taking the Bastile
Author(s): Alexandre Dumas This 4th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins several years after...
Pan Michael: An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey
Author(s): Henryk Sienkiewicz This is the third part of the Sienkiewicz trilogy. It is loosely...
Moon and Sixpence
Author(s): W. Somerset Maugham This Maugham novel is based on the life of the painter...
Notwithstanding
Author(s): Mary Cholmondeley The book starts with Annette Georges choosing between two fates: suicide and...
Painted Fires
Author(s): Nellie McClung Nellie L. McClung (1873-1951) is a Canadian icon – feminist, social activist,...